By Peter Rodgers – Geopolitical Monitor Foreign policy runs on narratives, institutions, and power. What is unusual about the current moment is how visibly a single leader’s governing style has bent those three at once. Since January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump has doubled down on short-term deal-making and suspicion of...

By Curro Jimenez – Naked Capitalism Europe is not a state, and that is a problem — mainly an economic problem. The strength of the euro is compromised by this. It is far easier to imagine Europe breaking apart than to imagine the United States doing so — and today,...

By Nicolas J. S. Davies* – Informed Comment As U.S. President Donald Trump surely intended, his “20-point Gaza plan” succeeded in upstaging calls by many other world leaders at the UN General Assembly for concrete, coordinated UN-led measures to force Israel to end its criminal genocide in Gaza and the illegal occupation...

By John Feffer* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) Trump needs an enemy to justify his power grabs, and Venezuela fits the bill. Every autocrat needs an enemy who threatens the country—preferably from both sides of the border. Such an enemy can serve as the reason to suspend the rule of...

By Jeffrey D. Sachs* and Sybil Fares* – Common Dreams A revised version of the Trump plan for an end of the war in Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank. This is the moment for honesty, global resolve, and moral clarity. President Trump’s 20-point plan offers some constructive...